Power outage history
Okaloosa County Florida
2.5hours
without power for the average customer in a typical year, 2018–2025
63rd most of 67 in Florida 62% below the national median
Every day since 2015
Eleven years, one night at a time
Each cell is a day. The brighter it is, the larger the share of Okaloosa's customers who were without power at that day's worst moment.
Year by year
Hours in the dark, per customer
2020 was the worst well-recorded year, at 8.2 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.
Okaloosa, hours without power per customer
The record
The biggest outages since 2015
Ranked by customer-hours lost: customers out multiplied by how long they stayed out. Times are local.
| Began | Storm | Peak out | Share | Lasted | 90% restored | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 15, 2020 | Hurricane Sally | 35,842 | 27% | 2.9 d | 30 h | 909k |
| Jan 9, 2024 | Windstorm | 7,378 | 6% | 19 h | 19 h | 103k |
| May 10, 2024 | Tornadoes | 12,241 | 9% | 18 h | 17 h | 95k |
| Mar 27, 2019 | No storm report | 5,217 | 4% | 11 h | 5.2 h | 57k |
| Jun 16, 2023 | Thunderstorms | 7,323 | 6% | 11 h | 11 h | 49k |
| Oct 8, 2017 | Hurricane Nate | 6,853 | 5% | 14 h | 11 h | 47k |
| Jul 14, 2017 | No storm report | 11,955 | 9% | 2.8 h | 2.5 h | 32k |
| Oct 10, 2018 | Hurricane Michael | 9,539 | 7% | 8.5 h | 5.5 h | 30k |
| Feb 7, 2017 | Thunderstorms | 5,611 | 4% | 7.0 h | 8.2 h | 24k |
| Apr 11, 2017 | No storm report | 3,052 | 2% | 9.2 h | – | 22k |
| Jun 8, 2016 | No storm report | 2,746 | 2% | 6.2 h | – | 16k |
| Aug 19, 2025 | No storm report | 3,426 | 3% | 4.5 h | – | 15k |
| Sep 27, 2018 | No storm report | 2,715 | 2% | 8.8 h | – | 14k |
| Jul 10, 2024 | No storm report | 6,040 | 5% | 2.2 h | 2.2 h | 13k |
| May 20, 2017 | Flooding | 2,010 | 2% | 7.5 h | – | 13k |
| Oct 28, 2020 | Hurricane Zeta | 1,933 | 1% | 9.5 h | – | 13k |
| Dec 1, 2020 | No storm report | 7,720 | 6% | 1.8 h | 1.5 h | 12k |
| Feb 26, 2024 | No storm report | 1,981 | 2% | 7.0 h | – | 11k |
| Aug 15, 2017 | No storm report | 2,513 | 2% | 4.2 h | – | 10k |
| Apr 24, 2021 | Thunderstorms | 4,870 | 4% | 2.5 h | – | 10k |
| Mar 17, 2015 | No storm report | 3,014 | 2% | 3.0 h | – | 9.0k |
| Jun 21, 2017 | Tornadoes | 4,124 | 3% | 2.8 h | – | 8.9k |
| Jun 28, 2018 | Thunderstorms | 3,181 | 2% | 4.8 h | – | 8.6k |
| Jul 19, 2017 | No storm report | 3,069 | 2% | 2.8 h | – | 8.4k |
| Jul 18, 2024 | No storm report | 5,887 | 4% | 1.8 h | 2.5 h | 8.3k |
| Nov 30, 2016 | Tornadoes | 4,243 | 3% | 2.2 h | – | 7.7k |
| Mar 17, 2023 | No storm report | 14,900 | 11% | 30 min | 12 min | 7.5k |
| Jul 10, 2023 | No storm report | 1,742 | 1% | 4.2 h | – | 7.0k |
| Jan 22, 2016 | Thunderstorms | 2,333 | 2% | 4.2 h | – | 6.9k |
| Dec 8, 2015 | No storm report | 1,945 | 1% | 4.5 h | – | 6.6k |
After the peak
How fast the lights come back
Each line is one major outage, from its peak. The amber line is the typical path.
When it happens
The outage clock
Customer-hours out by month (rings, January innermost) and local hour, 2018–2025.
What was happening
Weather behind the outages
Each outage is matched to NOAA storm reports for Okaloosa from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.
- Tropical storm 62%
- No storm on record 20%
- Windstorm 6.7%
- Tornadoes 6.3%
- Thunderstorms 5.6%
Who keeps the lights on
Utilities serving Okaloosa
As each utility reports to the Energy Information Administration for its whole Florida territory, not this county alone. Outage minutes include major storm days.
| Utility | Type | Outage min / yr | Excl. major storms | Outages / yr | Residential ¢/kWh | Customers |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Florida Power & Light Co | Investor Owned | 47 | 45 | 0.46 | 14.6 | 5.3M |
| Choctawhatche Elec Coop, Inc | Cooperative | 88 | 81 | 0.95 | 14.0 | 59k |
EIA Form 861, latest year each utility reported. Outage minutes are SAIDI, the yearly minutes the average customer goes without power; outages a year are SAIFI.
Next door
Neighbouring counties
- Santa Rosa 6.5 h
- Escambia, AL 6.4 h
- Walton 3.1 h
- Covington, AL 2.6 h
- Okaloosa (this county) 2.5 h
About these numbers
Notes
Outages come from the EAGLE-I record of utility outage maps collected every 15 minutes by Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Hours without power are customer-hours divided by the county's 131,235 electricity customers. Averages use well-covered years from 2018. Outages shorter than 15 minutes, and utilities that publish no outage map, are not in the record, so these figures understate the total. How every number is made →